After a while, fares would more than pay for running costs, except most American cities are run by liberals/socialists
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
Liberals are not socialists. Socialists are not liberals. I think you should learn the difference. There are, in fact, many different definitions of "liberalism,", but I can't think of any that match every tenet of socialism.
If you cannot tell the difference, people are always going to suspect that either your intelligence or your critical thinking skills are lacking.
so the system always runs in the red.
Which one is Rudy Giuliani, a liberal or a socialist? Or is the New York subway system in the black since Mayor Art Critic was elected?
My experience is that I am impaired long before I am legally drunk. I am 6'3" and 200-odd pounds, and according to charts, it takes four drinks in one hour on an empty stomach to get me legally drunk.
If I drink four drinks in one hour on an empty stomach, I am *fucking wasted.* Like Shane MacGowan wasted. And I am a much-more-than-occasional drinker.
You mean to tell me that other people feel *sober* at proportionally the same level of alcohol consumption?
Just sell friggin breathalyzers to the general public so they can see for themselves if they're over the legal limit.
Do people really have that hard a time telling if they're drunk? I always know right away. Of course, I've had years of practice in recognizing the state...
I don't have any source at all on this, but here's an anecdote for you:
A few years back, I read about a bar that had had liability problems based on people driving home from it while intoxicated. The owner bought a Breathalyzer wall unit, just like those things that take your blood pressure or try to predict what a red-hot lover you are. He encouraged people to use it before leaving the bar, and taped the number of the local taxi company(just one, a small town) up on the wall next to it.
Then, a couple of months after that, he took the unit back out. His patrons would order trays of shots, then sit around the machine trying to see how high they could "score."
Not exactly a high-popularity item, though - not too many people are really that thoughtful, and they cost at least a hundred bucks.
Yeah, see, that's really only a good investment if you're an alcoholic, I guess. Even then, I'm not sure I get the point...I'm a pretty enthusiastic drinker(probably not *quite* an alcoholic), and I've never had to wonder if I was drunk before. You just sort of know...
That could be another issue for in-car sensors? What of when they go out of whack?
Oh, I'm sure the wrongfully arrested person will be free to prove, at his own expense, that the sensors failed. If you like, you can just think of this as another way for rich people to beat DUIs. "My highly-paid expert can prove that my personal Breathalyzer had failed on that night, Your Honor."
I think it's interesting that you disparage "liberals/socialists" in the first line of your post. First of all, the terms are not interchangeable. I am a socialist. Most of my friends are just liberals. You should be able to find an explanation of the difference in any good online dictionary.
As to your claim that socialists(like me) and liberals don't want people to make their own decisions, I don't think the US Democratic Party(which is what you think when you think "liberals/socialists," because of your incomplete understanding of that term) has any monopoly on government interference in personal life. Or did Dubya legalize pot and it just didn't make the news here?
I hope he did. I can't take much more of these artificially high prices.
But then the last line of your post is a call for public transportation! Guess what? Public services like that cost money. What are you, some kind of tax and spend liberal?
My office's round of upgrades resulted in us getting 1 Ghz PIIIs with Geforce2 256 video cards.(We're a helpdesk at a university.)
My boss pointed out that she didn't know when the next time she was going to get to buy machines was, and so she figured she'd try and fight obsolesence as long as possible.
Other
countries are somehow able to have their due-process expedited. Personally, I wish the US were more like that.
You wish the US was more like *Russia?*
Please be a troll...oh God...please be a troll...
For example, I signed up once with BMG with a fake name at my house. Only a few weeks later, that imaginary
person supposedly won $10 million dollars from Publisher's Clearing House.
This is one way I used to have fun with big companies, and see who sold what. I would sign up for different things with different variations of my name, and watch the name space on the resulting junk (snail) mail.
For instance, Conde Nast Publishing(I had a subscription to Details back when they had great feature journalism) will sell your name to porno junk mailers -- *after* you let your subscription lapse. I thought that was cute. It was really disturbing pr0n, too, rape fantasies and such. And I knew it was Conde Nast, since I subscribed to Details as Skippy E-------, which was a high school nickname I had.
I saw a great bumper sticker once: "Labor unions: The people who brought you the weekend."
The more I see of kneejerk responses like this: No. I've yet to see a union that's done anything constructive. All they do is blackmail companies to try and extract unreasonable pay and working conditions. ...the more convinced I am that working conditions are going to have to get back to turn-of-the-century sweatshop conditions before a majority of workers are willing to say, "Gee, wait a minute. This sucks. Remember those days off our parents used to have?"
Someone at that school probably tried a "scared straight" routine on him. You're going to go to jail son. Do you want that? Do you want to share a cell with Bruno?
That's pretty much what I figured too. But nota bene: there are states in the union where it wouldn't have been an empty threat.
Remember the kid in Florida who got life without parole? He was 13, too...
And who was to blame for the act of hacking? Perhaps the actual person (the 13 year old) who commited the act of breaking into security holes?
We don't hold minors responsible for their actions, dumbass. That's what "minor" means. It's the same reason we don't let them vote or drive cars or buy whiskey.
If I had to take a wild stab at it, I'd guess that whatever administrator actually told the kid he was being suspended decided to really put the fear of God into him. Great job, Mr. Chips.
he wasn't stable enough to handle it and made to decision to kill himself
I read the Hitchhiker's books a *long* time ago, when I was 12 or so. Then I kept rereading them in later years.
I played his computer games, looked at his H2G2 website, and was anxious as hell for his movie.
49? That's too young. How can that happen? He had a daughter in 1994...he sure didn't see this coming. It's not fucking fair. 49? How is that fair?
God sucks.
I mean, I didn't get Indrema's business plan either -- as they were ignoring that old console saw about "making razors and giving away the blades." Specifically, console manufacturers make profits by selling games they've written themselves and by licensing third-party developers.
If TuxBox doesn't plan lots of in-house game development, where do they think the profits will come from? They can't license third-party developers, because an open-sourced development platform will be wide open to any developers.
Personally, I'm against them, as they'll make private schools jump through the same regulatory hoops that have made U.S. public schools the
world-wide beacon of success they are.
This is a side note, but you are aware, of course, that the "world-wide" competition U.S. public schools face is from *public* schools in other countries? Apparently, public schools can be successful. It's just not something we as a country have been real good at lately.
f vouchers were construed to be public funds, then it seems possible that private schools would be forced to accept some of the civil
rights-related standards that have (supposedly) been set for public schools.
Hmmm. They might not be, though. And determining whether they are in fact required to meet those civil rights standards would probably require one of those lengthy court battles. You know how those go, right?
IIRC, Roe's child(of Roe v. Wade fame) was six or seven by the time the Supreme Court ruled. (Please don't flame me to a crisp if I'm wrong. I'm going from memory here.)
'course, I'm not sure Sony and TimeWarnerAOL will cooperate to that extent unless they're pretty scared of MS...
There have been rumblings that X-Box was only conceived because Microsoft was angry about being shut out of the PS2 application space. The Register ran a quote from Sony's president that implied that.
Basically, MS went to Sony and set, "Internet-enabled gaming console, eh? We sure would like us some of that." Sony informed them that that wouldn't be necessary, thank you. Cue X-Box.
I would think that Sony has plenty of reason to want to team up against MS.
Here's the URL, made goatse.cx safe:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16043.html
If you don't like copying and pasting, click here.
So the implication is that Sony has already done the porting, and this is a petition to ask them to release the port?
Why would they port Linux? Someone's pet project, or an official corporate effort? If they've got X running, it sounds like more than something one guy did over the weekend.
TLG was less offensive technically than I would have thought. When they were looking at the data blob, for instance, with the text strings off to one side. I did manage to enjoy it, because I expected the usual portrayal of computer usage(think "Hackers." The Angelina Jolie movie, not the Steven Levy book).
But why do they screw up details like this? Does Chris Carter know how cheap any one of us would work as a technical advisor to a spin-off from the freaking X-Files?
Maybe there's no technically accurate way to make stuff like that look exciting on a film or video. Think about it; even most of what, say, a script kiddie does is just typing gunzip rootkit.tar.gz | tar -xf rootkit.tar |/rootkit/r00t.sh.
I think the only way Apple is going to prevent being read the riot act when MacOS X is released is to offer a free MacOS X 1.1 Upgrade on CD-ROM to anyone who sends in their registration cards for the OS.
Apple's track record doesn't exactly suggest that they'll do so. Remember, users who paid for the Public Beta shelled out $30, considerably more than just "media and shipping," and didn't get a break on the cost of the full version.
Given that, I don't see why anyone would pay for OS X 1.0. The past suggests they will be charged for necessary bug fixes.
Sure, all I'm saying is that the contract in this instance should not be illegal.
Maybe not, but there's going to be some line somewhere. If not drugs, let's say a contract between consenting adults for murder for hire. I decide not to rub the guy out, you sue for injunctive relief. I'm trying to picture the court ordering me to kill Anthony "Little Knuckles" Capistrano.
Even if you remove these laws today, the permatemps still win their case. Ex post facto...
Am I correct in assuming you favor no labor laws whatsoever? I, personally, like having my market value artificially set a bit too high. It hasn't caused any disastrous depressions that I've noticed -- and the absence of labor laws didn't ever prevent depressions, panics, plagues of boils, whatnot.
Well, you said it. Look, this is comparatively simple; it is a principle of contract law that you cannot enforce a contract whose provisions are illegal.
Wacky gedankenexperiment example: You and I enter into a written contract wherein I agree to sell you several kilos of methedrine at well under the market price. (No, I don't know what it is.) You give me the dough. I stiff you on the meth. You sue for injunctive relief to make me cough up the drugs. You get nothing, because the provisions of the contract were for illegal acts.
Real-world example: You are an hourly employee working for EvilCo. in their factory, making EvilWidgets. State law requires that hourly employees be paid time and a half if they work more than forty hours in a single week. Your employer asks you to sign a piece of paper saying that you will work forty-five hours a week at base pay. You work at the job for six months before you meet a disgusting, slimy lawyer at a party. He convinces you to sue for back overtime. You win. (The lawyer gets most of the settlement, and, unbeknownst to you, sleeps with your wife.)
Do you get it? It's illegal. The courts enforce laws.
The laws are mostly designed to do things like protect naive underage workers, migrant workers who might have poor command of English, and so forth. But they apply to everybody.
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My point is still the same.
After a while, fares would more than pay for running costs, except most American cities are run by liberals/socialists
"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
Liberals are not socialists. Socialists are not liberals. I think you should learn the difference. There are, in fact, many different definitions of "liberalism,", but I can't think of any that match every tenet of socialism.
If you cannot tell the difference, people are always going to suspect that either your intelligence or your critical thinking skills are lacking.
so the system always runs in the red.
Which one is Rudy Giuliani, a liberal or a socialist? Or is the New York subway system in the black since Mayor Art Critic was elected?
If I drink four drinks in one hour on an empty stomach, I am *fucking wasted.* Like Shane MacGowan wasted. And I am a much-more-than-occasional drinker.
You mean to tell me that other people feel *sober* at proportionally the same level of alcohol consumption?
Do people really have that hard a time telling if they're drunk? I always know right away. Of course, I've had years of practice in recognizing the state...
I don't have any source at all on this, but here's an anecdote for you:
A few years back, I read about a bar that had had liability problems based on people driving home from it while intoxicated. The owner bought a Breathalyzer wall unit, just like those things that take your blood pressure or try to predict what a red-hot lover you are. He encouraged people to use it before leaving the bar, and taped the number of the local taxi company(just one, a small town) up on the wall next to it.
Then, a couple of months after that, he took the unit back out. His patrons would order trays of shots, then sit around the machine trying to see how high they could "score."
Yeah, see, that's really only a good investment if you're an alcoholic, I guess. Even then, I'm not sure I get the point...I'm a pretty enthusiastic drinker(probably not *quite* an alcoholic), and I've never had to wonder if I was drunk before. You just sort of know...
That could be another issue for in-car sensors? What of when they go out of whack?
Oh, I'm sure the wrongfully arrested person will be free to prove, at his own expense, that the sensors failed. If you like, you can just think of this as another way for rich people to beat DUIs. "My highly-paid expert can prove that my personal Breathalyzer had failed on that night, Your Honor."
As to your claim that socialists(like me) and liberals don't want people to make their own decisions, I don't think the US Democratic Party(which is what you think when you think "liberals/socialists," because of your incomplete understanding of that term) has any monopoly on government interference in personal life. Or did Dubya legalize pot and it just didn't make the news here?
I hope he did. I can't take much more of these artificially high prices.
But then the last line of your post is a call for public transportation! Guess what? Public services like that cost money. What are you, some kind of tax and spend liberal?
Thomas Harris is the Hannibal/Silence of the Lambs guy.
My boss pointed out that she didn't know when the next time she was going to get to buy machines was, and so she figured she'd try and fight obsolesence as long as possible.
Other countries are somehow able to have their due-process expedited. Personally, I wish the US were more like that. You wish the US was more like *Russia?* Please be a troll...oh God...please be a troll...
This is one way I used to have fun with big companies, and see who sold what. I would sign up for different things with different variations of my name, and watch the name space on the resulting junk (snail) mail.
For instance, Conde Nast Publishing(I had a subscription to Details back when they had great feature journalism) will sell your name to porno junk mailers -- *after* you let your subscription lapse. I thought that was cute. It was really disturbing pr0n, too, rape fantasies and such. And I knew it was Conde Nast, since I subscribed to Details as Skippy E-------, which was a high school nickname I had.
I saw a great bumper sticker once: "Labor unions: The people who brought you the weekend."
The more I see of kneejerk responses like this:
...the more convinced I am that working conditions are going to have to get back to turn-of-the-century sweatshop conditions before a majority of workers are willing to say, "Gee, wait a minute. This sucks. Remember those days off our parents used to have?"
No. I've yet to see a union that's done anything constructive. All they do is blackmail companies to try and extract unreasonable pay and working conditions.
That's pretty much what I figured too. But nota bene: there are states in the union where it wouldn't have been an empty threat.
Remember the kid in Florida who got life without parole? He was 13, too...
We don't hold minors responsible for their actions, dumbass. That's what "minor" means. It's the same reason we don't let them vote or drive cars or buy whiskey.
If I had to take a wild stab at it, I'd guess that whatever administrator actually told the kid he was being suspended decided to really put the fear of God into him. Great job, Mr. Chips.
he wasn't stable enough to handle it and made to decision to kill himself
Have you known lots of stable 13-year-olds?
I read the Hitchhiker's books a *long* time ago, when I was 12 or so. Then I kept rereading them in later years. I played his computer games, looked at his H2G2 website, and was anxious as hell for his movie. 49? That's too young. How can that happen? He had a daughter in 1994...he sure didn't see this coming. It's not fucking fair. 49? How is that fair? God sucks.
If TuxBox doesn't plan lots of in-house game development, where do they think the profits will come from? They can't license third-party developers, because an open-sourced development platform will be wide open to any developers.
This is a side note, but you are aware, of course, that the "world-wide" competition U.S. public schools face is from *public* schools in other countries? Apparently, public schools can be successful. It's just not something we as a country have been real good at lately.
Hmmm. They might not be, though. And determining whether they are in fact required to meet those civil rights standards would probably require one of those lengthy court battles. You know how those go, right?
IIRC, Roe's child(of Roe v. Wade fame) was six or seven by the time the Supreme Court ruled. (Please don't flame me to a crisp if I'm wrong. I'm going from memory here.)
Ooooh, excellent point. I hadn't thought of that.
'course, I'm not sure Sony and TimeWarnerAOL will cooperate to that extent unless they're pretty scared of MS...
There have been rumblings that X-Box was only conceived because Microsoft was angry about being shut out of the PS2 application space. The Register ran a quote from Sony's president that implied that.
Basically, MS went to Sony and set, "Internet-enabled gaming console, eh? We sure would like us some of that." Sony informed them that that wouldn't be necessary, thank you. Cue X-Box.
I would think that Sony has plenty of reason to want to team up against MS.
Here's the URL, made goatse.cx safe:3 .html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/1604
If you don't like copying and pasting, click here.
Why would they port Linux? Someone's pet project, or an official corporate effort? If they've got X running, it sounds like more than something one guy did over the weekend.
That I did not know. I stand corrected.
But why do they screw up details like this? Does Chris Carter know how cheap any one of us would work as a technical advisor to a spin-off from the freaking X-Files?
Maybe there's no technically accurate way to make stuff like that look exciting on a film or video. Think about it; even most of what, say, a script kiddie does is just typing gunzip rootkit.tar.gz | tar -xf rootkit.tar | /rootkit/r00t.sh.
Apple's track record doesn't exactly suggest that they'll do so. Remember, users who paid for the Public Beta shelled out $30, considerably more than just "media and shipping," and didn't get a break on the cost of the full version.
Given that, I don't see why anyone would pay for OS X 1.0. The past suggests they will be charged for necessary bug fixes.
Legally defined as grievous bodily harm, I believe.
If you meant to attribute it, please don't take this as a flame.
Maybe not, but there's going to be some line somewhere. If not drugs, let's say a contract between consenting adults for murder for hire. I decide not to rub the guy out, you sue for injunctive relief. I'm trying to picture the court ordering me to kill Anthony "Little Knuckles" Capistrano.
Even if you remove these laws today, the permatemps still win their case. Ex post facto...
Am I correct in assuming you favor no labor laws whatsoever? I, personally, like having my market value artificially set a bit too high. It hasn't caused any disastrous depressions that I've noticed -- and the absence of labor laws didn't ever prevent depressions, panics, plagues of boils, whatnot.
Well, you said it. Look, this is comparatively simple; it is a principle of contract law that you cannot enforce a contract whose provisions are illegal.
Wacky gedankenexperiment example: You and I enter into a written contract wherein I agree to sell you several kilos of methedrine at well under the market price. (No, I don't know what it is.) You give me the dough. I stiff you on the meth. You sue for injunctive relief to make me cough up the drugs. You get nothing, because the provisions of the contract were for illegal acts.
Real-world example: You are an hourly employee working for EvilCo. in their factory, making EvilWidgets. State law requires that hourly employees be paid time and a half if they work more than forty hours in a single week. Your employer asks you to sign a piece of paper saying that you will work forty-five hours a week at base pay. You work at the job for six months before you meet a disgusting, slimy lawyer at a party. He convinces you to sue for back overtime. You win. (The lawyer gets most of the settlement, and, unbeknownst to you, sleeps with your wife.)
Do you get it? It's illegal. The courts enforce laws.
The laws are mostly designed to do things like protect naive underage workers, migrant workers who might have poor command of English, and so forth. But they apply to everybody.